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| Title: | The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Doris Zames Fleischer; Frieda Zames |
| ISBN: | 1566398118 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781566398114 (cloth : alk. paper); 1566398126 (pbk.); 9781566398121 (pbk.) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Content: "Wheelchair Bound" and "The Poster Child" : FDR, the "Cured Cripple" ; League of the Physically Handicapped ; The March of Dimes ; Parent-Intiated Childhood Disability Organizations ; The Poster Child and the Telethon ; Changing Views of Disability in the United States -- Seeing by Touch, Hearing by Sign : Blindness and Deafness: A Comparision ; Sign Language and Oralism ; Braille and Talking Books ; Sheltered Workshops ; The Lighthouse ; Mobility for Blind People: Guide Dogs and White Canes ; Jabobus tenBroek and the National Federation of the Blind ; NYC Subway Gates: A Controversy in the Blind Community ; NFB: Trailblazer for Sections 504 and 501 ; NFB and ACB: Different Approaches to Blindness ; Deafness as Culture ; American Sign Language ; The Gallaudet University Uprising ; Black Deaf Advocates ; Education of Deaf Children ; Helen Keller, the Social Reformer -- Deinstitutionalization and Independent Living : Deinstitutionalization ; Early Accessibility Efforts in the Colleges ; Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement ; Proliferation of the Independent Living Concept ; Characteristics of Independent Living Centers ; Independent Living as an Extension of Rehabilitation ; Evaluation of the Independent Living Movement ; Independent Living and the New Disability Activism -- Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation: Section 504 : The Cherry Lawsuit for the Section 504 Regulations ; Section 504 as a Spur to Political Organizing ; ACCD, Propelling Section 504 ; The Section 504 Demonstrations ; The Transbus Controversy ; Accessible Transit and New York City ; Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ; California Accessible Buses ; Mainstreaming Public Transit ; The Civil Rights Significance of Accessible Transportation -- The Struggle for Change: In the Streets and in the Courts : Disabled in Action ; New York Lawyers for the Public Interest ; Recognizing Disability as a Civil Rights Issue ; Diability Rights Education and Defense Fund ; The Need for Disability Rights Attorneys ; ADAPT ; Justice for All -- The Americans with Disabilities Act : Enacting the ADA ; The ADA and Section 504 ; Title I: Employment ; Title III: Public Accomodation ; Title II: Public Services (State and Local Government) ; Title II: Public Transportation ; Title IV: National Telephone Relay Service ; Title V: Miscellaneous ; The Supreme Court and the ADA ; The Myth of "The Disability Lobby" ; Backlash ; Every American's Insurance Policy -- Content: Access to Jobs and Health Care : Employment Discrimination ; Affirmative Action ; Disability Employment in Corporate America ; Employment of People with Developmental Disabilities ; Employment of People with Psychiatric Disabilities ; The Criminalization of People with Psychiatric Disabilities ; Different Approaches to Psychiatric Disabilities ; Mangled Care ; A Two-Tier Health Care System ; People with Special Needs in Managed Care ; An Arbitrary Patchwork ; Falling through the Cracks: Children with Special Health Needs ; Long-Term Care in the Community ; Health Policy Reforms ; The Nexus between Jobs and Health Care -- "Not Dead Yet" and Physician-Assisted Suicide : Opposition to "the Death Trian" ; The Supreme Court ; AIDS Activists ; Pain Management ; Focus on Cure: A Pernicious Message ; The Eugenics Movement and Euthanasia ; The Politics of Physician-Assisted Suicide ; Netherlands "Slippery Slope" vs. U.S. "Political Strategy" ; First-Year Report on Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon ; Legalizing Disability Discrimination ; Dangers of an Inflexible Law ; "A Better Solution" ; The Distinction between Severe Disability and Terminal Illness -- Disability and Technology : Universal Design ; Accessible Taxis ; Teletypewriters and Relay Systems ; A Clash of Cultures ; The One-Step Campaign ; Wheelchair Ingenuity ; Accessible Classrooms and Laboratories ; The Computer as an Accommodation ; Psychopharmacology ; Bioethical Dilemmas ; The Internet and a Miracle Baby ; Medical and Genetic Information ; "Slash, Burn, and Poison" ; Tranforming Scientific Orthodoxy: AIDS Activism ; Toward a New Vision: Three Queeries -- Disabled Veterans Claim Their Rights : Legislation and Self-Advocacy ; Rehabilitation: The Man, Not the Wound ; Paralyzed Veterans of America ; Automobiles: Opening "New Vistas" ; The Pattern of Denial ; Atomic and Chemical Guinea Pigs ; Holding a Nation Accountable -- Education: Integration in the Least Restrictive Environment : A "Quiet Revolution" ; Enforcing the IDEA: Early Efforts ; Least Restrictive Environment ; An Appropriate Identity ; The IDEA in the Courts ; The Special Education Controversy ; Somnolent Samantha ; A Microcosm of the Real World -- Identity and Culture : Three Strands of the Movement ; Disability Pride: Celebrating Difference ; Changing Perceptions and the Media ; Assessment of the Movement ; A Stealth Movement. |
| Description: | xxix, 278 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. "Wheelchair bound" and "the poster child" -- 2. Seeing by touch, hearing by sign -- 3. Deinstitutionalization and independent living -- 4. Groundbreaking disability rights legislation : section 504 -- 5. The struggle for change : in the streets and in the courts -- 6. The American with Disabilities Act -- 7. Access to jobs and health care -- 8. "Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide -- 9. Disability and technology -- 10. Disabled veterans claim their rights -- 11. Education : integration in the least restrictive environment -- 12. Identity and culture.; "Wheelchair Bound" and "The Poster Child" : FDR, the "Cured Cripple" ; League of the Physically Handicapped ; The March of Dimes ; Parent-Intiated Childhood Disability Organizations ; The Poster Child and the Telethon ; Changing Views of Disability in the United States -- Seeing by Touch, Hearing by Sign : Blindness and Deafness: A Comparision ; Sign Language and Oralism ; Braille and Talking Books ; Sheltered Workshops ; The Lighthouse ; Mobility for Blind People: Guide Dogs and White Canes ; Jabobus tenBroek and the National Federation of the Blind ; NYC Subway Gates: A Controversy in the Blind Community ; NFB: Trailblazer for Sections 504 and 501 ; NFB and ACB: Different Approaches to Blindness ; Deafness as Culture ; American Sign Language ; The Gallaudet University Uprising ; Black Deaf Advocates ; Education of Deaf Children ; Helen Keller, the Social Reformer -- Deinstitutionalization and Independent Living : Deinstitutionalization ; Early Accessibility Efforts in the Colleges ; Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement ; Proliferation of the Independent Living Concept ; Characteristics of Independent Living Centers ; Independent Living as an Extension of Rehabilitation ; Evaluation of the Independent Living Movement ; Independent Living and the New Disability Activism -- Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation: Section 504 : The Cherry Lawsuit for the Section 504 Regulations ; Section 504 as a Spur to Political Organizing ; ACCD, Propelling Section 504 ; The Section 504 Demonstrations ; The Transbus Controversy ; Accessible Transit and New York City ; Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ; California Accessible Buses ; Mainstreaming Public Transit ; The Civil Rights Significance of Accessible Transportation -- The Struggle for Change: In the Streets and in the Courts : Disabled in Action ; New York Lawyers for the Public Interest ; Recognizing Disability as a Civil Rights Issue ; Diability Rights Education and Defense Fund ; The Need for Disability Rights Attorneys ; ADAPT ; Justice for All -- The Americans with Disabilities Act : Enacting the ADA ; The ADA and Section 504 ; Title I: Employment ; Title III: Public Accomodation ; Title II: Public Services (State and Local Government) ; Title II: Public Transportation ; Title IV: National Telephone Relay Service ; Title V: Miscellaneous ; The Supreme Court and the ADA ; The Myth of "The Disability Lobby" ; Backlash ; Every American's Insurance Policy --; Access to Jobs and Health Care : Employment Discrimination ; Affirmative Action ; Disability Employment in Corporate America ; Employment of People with Developmental Disabilities ; Employment of People with Psychiatric Disabilities ; The Criminalization of People with Psychiatric Disabilities ; Different Approaches to Psychiatric Disabilities ; Mangled Care ; A Two-Tier Health Care System ; People with Special Needs in Managed Care ; An Arbitrary Patchwork ; Falling through the Cracks: Children with Special Health Needs ; Long-Term Care in the Community ; Health Policy Reforms ; The Nexus between Jobs and Health Care -- "Not Dead Yet" and Physician-Assisted Suicide : Opposition to "the Death Trian" ; The Supreme Court ; AIDS Activists ; Pain Management ; Focus on Cure: A Pernicious Message ; The Eugenics Movement and Euthanasia ; The Politics of Physician-Assisted Suicide ; Netherlands "Slippery Slope" vs. U.S. "Political Strategy" ; First-Year Report on Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon ; Legalizing Disability Discrimination ; Dangers of an Inflexible Law ; "A Better Solution" ; The Distinction between Severe Disability and Terminal Illness -- Disability and Technology : Universal Design ; Accessible Taxis ; Teletypewriters and Relay Systems ; A Clash of Cultures ; The One-Step Campaign ; Wheelchair Ingenuity ; Accessible Classrooms and Laboratories ; The Computer as an Accommodation ; Psychopharmacology ; Bioethical Dilemmas ; The Internet and a Miracle Baby ; Medical and Genetic Information ; "Slash, Burn, and Poison" ; Tranforming Scientific Orthodoxy: AIDS Activism ; Toward a New Vision: Three Queeries -- Disabled Veterans Claim Their Rights : Legislation and Self-Advocacy ; Rehabilitation: The Man, Not the Wound ; Paralyzed Veterans of America ; Automobiles: Opening "New Vistas" ; The Pattern of Denial ; Atomic and Chemical Guinea Pigs ; Holding a Nation Accountable -- Education: Integration in the Least Restrictive Environment : A "Quiet Revolution" ; Enforcing the IDEA: Early Efforts ; Least Restrictive Environment ; An Appropriate Identity ; The IDEA in the Courts ; The Special Education Controversy ; Somnolent Samantha ; A Microcosm of the Real World -- Identity and Culture : Three Strands of the Movement ; Disability Pride: Celebrating Difference ; Changing Perceptions and the Media ; Assessment of the Movement ; A Stealth Movement. |
| Responsibility: | Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames. |
| Year: | 2001. |
| Publisher: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 00039282 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1553; Dewey No.: 323.3 |
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| OCLC No.: | 43864402 |
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"More than a history, The Disability Rights Movement documents the wrenching evolution of attitudes: From isolation and charity to confrontation and rights; from sheltered workshops to independent living; from telethons of pity to technology's power; from 'cripples' and 'invalids' to People with disabilities! Comprehensive and well-written, Fleischer and Zames capture the substance and spirit of the disability rights movement and bring it to life." --Frederick A. Fay, Ph.D., Chair, Justice for All, and disability rights advocate for four decades "Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames take the reader on a guided tour through the still-brief history of the Disability Rights Movement, and they draw upon many first-person accounts to enrich the narrative. Although I was 'present at the creation' of much of this, I still learned a great deal. A unique feature of this book is the first-hand recounting of the remarkable work of the Disabled in Action (DIA) of New York. This group never gave up in their struggle to make the nation's biggest city accessible, despite enormous odds and powerful political opposition. Their story alone is worth the price of this book." --Frank G. Bowe, Ph.D., Professor, Hofstra University, and author of Physical, Sensory and Health Disabilities "Frieda Zames and Doris Zames Fleischer have crafted the most comprehensive history of the disability rights movement to date. Many firsthand sources and never-before-published interviews make this a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of today's most pressing disability rights issues." --Mary Johnson, Editor, Ragged EDGE "This eye-opening work...offers one of the first thorough histories of a movement for civil rights that has profoundly changed America. ... A fascinating book." --The Sacramento Bee (online) "Here at last is a book about our civil rights movement written by one of us: Frieda Zames, a polio survivor and activist...The Disability Rights Movement stands out for its insiders' point of view and the sheer thoroughness of ground covered. ...the authors turn what could have been a rather dry historical book into one that absolutely compels us to read on. They accomplish this not only through meticulous research, but also through their inclusion of information and opinions gleaned from interviews with movement leaders and other people whose lives have been directly affected. ...[the book] is far more than just a history book. It's a cautionary tale of rights won and now in jeopardy. It's a tale of a people who have won some legal battles but still face mass discrimination each day. ... It is an excellent beginning..." --Sally Rosenthal "Fleischer and Zames offer an encyclopedic treatment of the development of the disability rights movement...[They] provide a useful starting point for inquiries into a plethora of disability rights issues." --New Political Science Read more...